Corset



J. J. KISPERT May 18, 1937.

CORSET A Filed Feb. 28, 1936 INVENTOR WITNESSES v JoaephJJfiapeFt ATTORNEYS Patented May 18, 1937 CORSET i Joseph J. Kispert, Hamden, Conn., assignor to I. Newman & Sons, Inc., New Haven, Conn, a

corporation of Connecticut Applicatim February 2 1936, seiialnaaisi 1 Claim.

This invention relates to corsets provided with lacing, and has for an object to provide an improved construction wherein covering fiaps are provided for the lacing arranged to permit the 5 lacing to have any desired adjustment and for covering the eyelets or other means carrying the lacing.

An additional object is to provide a corset which may be of the wrap-around type or the type open at the front and back wherein means are provided for covering all or part of the lacing and the metal or other parts connecting the lacing with the body of the corset.

A further object, more specifically, is to provide covering flaps for corsets wherein the flaps are stitched down at spaced intervals to provide a uniform smooth surface.

An additional and further object is to provide a covering flap for covering the eyelets or other members carrying the lacing, the flaps being formed with stiffening and retaining stays and stitching at spaced intervals extending through the stays, whereby the flaps are maintained smooth throughout.

In the accompanying drawing Figure l is a front View of a corset disclosing an embodiment of the invention, the same being shown on a figure;

Fig. 2 is a front view slightly in perspective of the corset shown in Fig. 1, the same being on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view through Fig. 2 approximately on the line 33, the same being on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary enlarged sectional view through Fig. 2 on the line 44;

Big. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional View through Fig. 2 on the line 55;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged view partially in perspective illustrating how the flaps are held down and how they cover the various lacing-receiving eyelets;

Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional view through a modified form of corset where a conventional lac- 0 ing means is provided at the front and a lacing with flaps embodying the invention is arranged at the back. 7

Referring to the accompanying drawing by numerals, I indicates the body of a corset of 50 substantially any desired type which is open at the front. This body extends across the back, the sides and across the front, or partly across the front, according to circumstances. The front portions 2 and 3 of the body I are spaced apart and the front portion 3 is provided with a spaced section .4-.connectedto the main front portion3 by a lacing'5. Suitable conventional fastening means 6.-disengageably connect said section with the front portion 2. It will also be noted fromv Fig. 2 that the front portion 3 is cut away as at I and the front, hose supporters 8 and 9 extend upwardly to'the respective shoulders I0 and II. By this arrangement'an extra length of elastic is provided which will hold down the front of the corset without any undue strain.

As illustrated particularly in Figs. 3 and 6, the front section 3 is provided with an extension I2 having a row of eyelets I3, and adjacent the edge of the extension a reinforcing stay I4 formed of material through which stitching I5 may extend, is provided. This stay is formed of some composition or material that will permit a needle to readily pass therethrough when stitching I5 is applied. This form of stay is old and well known but the location thereof at the outer edge of the extension I2 is new. Coacting with the extension I2 is an extension I6 forming part of the section 4. A row of outlets is carried by the extension IB and is covered by a flap I8 which has one portion secured in place permanently to the extension I6. Likewise a flap I9 covers the extension I i. In Fig. 6 the flap I9 has been shown as being pulled away from the extension I2. The parts are rather exaggerated in this figure so as to illustrate the fact that there is a space into which the lacing 5 may extend. It will be'understood that the lacing extends over the extension I2, as shown in Fig. 6, through the various eyelets I3, and then in back of the extension I2 to a position in back of extension I6, through eyelets H in back of flap I8, and then through the open space, as shown in Fig. 2, back to the extension I2. nary way of lacing and will function properly to draw and hold the sections 2 and 3 together or in juxtaposition without the flaps I8 and I9. These flaps, however, are provided in order to present a nice appearing garment and also to present a smooth outer surface over which other garments may be placed without tearing or causing protuberances therein. If the flaps I8 and I9 were connected in position along one longitudinal edge, they would move to an open position and and become more or less wrinkled in use. To prevent this and also to provide a comparatively stiff and neat arrangement, the respective stays I4 and I4 are provided in theextensions I2 and I6 and the various spaced retaining stitches -I5 are provided.

As shown in Fig. 6 there is a transverse retain- The lacing is positioned in the ordiwill present a flexible supporting and stay struc-..

ture and one through which the stitching l5 can readily pass.

By this construction and arrangement the eyelets cannot be seen through a thin dress and yet they are conveniently positioned so-that the lacing can be adjusted to any desired extent, and

so that the opening at the front of the corset may be comparatively great or may be very narrow.

As shown in Figs. 1 to 6,. inclusive, the invention has been illustrated on the front of a corset, but if desired it may be used on the rear of the corset as shown in Fig. 7. In this form of the corset any desired type of disengageable connecting means 6' may be used, the same being preferably of the type indicated by the numeral 6 in Fig. 2. The same arrangement of lacing and associated parts are presented at the rear, as shown in Fig. 2 at the front, with the flaps l8 and I9 covering the eyelets so as to present a nice, smooth appearance to the garment.

I claim:

A corset comprising a body having a pair of facing edges a stiffening stay carried by said body adjacent each of said facing edges, said stays being of material capable of receiving stitching, a row of eyelets set back from each of said facing edges, a covering flap for each of said rows of eyelets and the stays adjacent thereto, and a plurality of spaced circumferentially extending rows of stitching extending from the edge of the respective flaps across the flaps and connecting the flaps for substantially their full width to said body whereby a plurality of pockets arepresented, there being a plurality of eyelets in each pocket, said pockets being of suficient length to permit lacings to be threaded through said eyelets without tearing the pockets and without permanently deforming said stiffening stays, said stays normally holding said facing edges and the edges of said flaps substantially taut.

JOSEPH J. KISPERT. 

